TO OUR PATRONS. 



T this season of congratulations, and on the beginning of this the Centennial 

 Year, we wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. The Centennial Exposi- 

 tion, which you will or should visit, opening in this city on the lUth of May, and 

 M\/ continuing until Noveniljer 10th, will be an event never again presenting itself 

 J in our generation, where the products of the soil and everything that is will be 

 exhibited. Any attentions we may be able to extend will give us great pleasure, and 

 trust you will not hesitate in calling at No. 714 Chestnut street, on the leading and 

 fashionable thoroughfare, only one block from the !?tate House and leading Hotels. 

 Owing to the steady increiise of our business, we felt compelled during the past season 

 to enlarge our store and warehouse, which gives us now a large, light, and airy retail 

 department (23 by 175 feet) on the first floor, besides the cellar of the same dimensions, 

 and the upper floors, which latter contain, on 2d story, the wholesale seed department 

 and storage room; 3d story, storage room, printers' room, stock room for florists' 

 requisites, tools, etc., and 4th story, storage and drying floors, and a large Green-house, 

 in which many things necessary to our plant business are kept — at this point the sug- 

 gestion may be mide to many living in cities, that they can enjoy a Green-hoiue built 

 on the roof as well as their suburl)an friends having acres at disposal. 



Notwithstanding the Centennial and other attractive celebrations, our earnest and 

 determined policy is to supply all our friends and customers with pure and reliable 

 Sfted^i, using every caution and care in the trial of J\^eiv and Old Varietiea, testing their 

 germinating qualities, and insuring their genuineness before sending out. 



Our large sample and t-ial grounds are under the direct supervision of ourselves and 

 in charge i)f an experienced market gardener, where each sort is carefully grown. A 

 register being kept giving date of planting, time of maturing, growers' names, etc., 

 and marginal notes made for references, so that in the event of any irregularities the 

 source can be immediately traced. We do not profess to be the growers of more than 

 a few leading articles that require great attention to insure their piirity ; the bulk df 

 our stock is grown by competent and responsible growers under our supervision, and 

 those imported are from the best houses of Europe. 



In this connection we will here state, while we exercise the greatest care to have all 

 seeds pure and reliable, that unless the soil, planter and atmospheric conditions are 

 guaranteed, we will not hold ourselves responsible for the full development of any crop. 



SEEDS BY MAIL. 



Our object is to come directly in contact with the farmer and gardener, who ap- 

 preciate the difference between good and bad seeds; we feel satisfied, as our home 

 and disfciiit trade bear evidence, that our seeds will give full satisfaction in every 

 respect. In view of the unjust decision of Congress on March 3d, 1875, increasing the 

 rate of postage from one cent for each two ounces to one cent for each ounce, we still 

 continue to send 



FREE 



to every post office in the United States and the British Provinces, when ordered by 

 the packet or ounce; when ordered by the quart or pound at quart or pound prices, SO 

 cents per qtiart, or 15 cents per pound additional, to be remitted to cover postage; to 

 points within 1000 miles of this city, it will be very much cheaper than old rate of 

 jmsfcige to send five pounds and over by express, at purchaser's expense. "With this 

 additional expense brought on by an obnoxious law, our prices will compare very 

 favorably with those of any other house in the country. 



For the convenience of persons who wish but small quantities, the seeds are put np 

 in packets of five, ten, and twentj'-five cents each. Those quoted from thirty cents to 

 one dollar i)er uz., in not less than ten cent packets; over one dollar ])er oz., in packets 

 of twenty-five cents each. Beans, Corn, and Peas, in not less than ten cent packets. 



Philadelphia, * HENRY A. DREER. 



January \st, 1876. 



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